What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Regular. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something
- Title : Dry: A Memoir
- Author : Augusten Burroughs
- Rating : 4.68 (373 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-10-9
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 320 Pages
- Asin : 0312423799
- Language : English
What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Regular. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Drythe hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeand live it sober. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. Ordinary. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so longThat grassroots racing is a great event, but an expensive one! Anyone looking into drag racing seriously needs to read this book!. The discussions are sufficiently detailed that the capable and enthusiastic student should be able to write computer code that solves the propagation characteristics of virtually any arbitrary waveguide. "Dry" is a very honest, bold and personal account.. More please!. Smith's life was saved -- and made -- when a librarian gave him a play by Shakespeare when he was a young teenager, struggling with the responsibilities for an over-stressed family. The author formerly known as ISO/TC 29/SC 9, now known under the even-more-implausible name of ISO/TC 29/SC 10, pulls no punches in this, his latest masterpiece. "Dry", by Augusten Burroughs, is an excellent, well written memoir. This is a very good book for optical waveguide design. It will also make you remember your mom's cooking --whether or not you loved or hated it!. I enjoyed this book very much and it has enhanced the very pleasurable time I had at route 66 drag way. Food lovers will find this a page turner, as IFans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. His apartment is a sea of empty Dewar's bottles, he stays out all night boozing, and he dabs cologne on his tongue in an unsuccessful attempt to mask the stench of alcohol on his breath at work. But Burroughs's account transcends clichés: it doesn't adhere to the traditional "temptation narrowly resisted" storyline and it features, in Burroughs himself, a central character that is sympathetic even when he's neither likable nor admirable. But after a month of such treatment, he's back in Manhattan and tenuously sober. --John Moe. And while its one thing to lay off the sauce in rehab, Burroughs learns that it's quite another to resume your former life while avoiding the alcohol that your former life was based around. When his employer insists he seek help, Burroughs ships out to Minnesota for detoxification, counseling, and amusingly told anecdotes about the use of stuffed animals in group therapy. Certainly the "recovered alcoholi
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